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Container Corporation of America

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In the spring of 1970, CCA sponsored a contest to design a symbol to promote the recycling of paper products. The contest, which drew more than 500 submissions, was won by
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which was distributed free to more than 150 colleges and universities. A review described it as the "handsomest and best atlas ever published in America."
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Art, Design, and the Modern Corporation: The Collection of Container Corporation of America, a Gift to the National Museum of American Art.
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Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.
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The Container Corporation of America headquarters were located in
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This United States manufacturing company–related article is a
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World Geo-Graphic Atlas: A Composite of Man's Environment
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World Geo-Graphic Atlas, A Composite of Man's Environment
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Review: [untitled] L. Ullman Reviewed work(s):
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1995 Superfund penalty (U.S. Department of Justice)
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Corrugated boxes
Jefferson Smurfit Corporation
corrugated boxes
Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc.
board of directors
Mobil Corporation
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
Walter Paepcke
National Museum of American Art
Herbert Bayer
Gary Anderson
recycling symbol
Chicago, Illinois
Descriptive Color Names Dictionary
Neil Harris
Review: [untitled] L. Ullman Reviewed work(s): World Geo-Graphic Atlas: A Composite of Man's Environment by Herbert Bayer IN: Geographical Review, Vol. 45, No. 1 (January 1955), pp. 147–149
"The recycling symbol's Aspen roots"
"How the recycling symbol lost its meaning"
1995 Superfund penalty (U.S. Department of Justice)
"Changes of the Week"
Time
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Manufacturing companies established in 1926
American companies established in 1926

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